1. Pray for your kids every day.
2. Speak well of your child every time they do something right.
3. Bring your kids to church.
4. Thank God in front of your kids.
5. Teach Sunday School for your kids class.
6. Sing loudly at church.
7. Sing Songs Of Praise at suppertime.
8. Read the Bible aloud.
9. Teach your kids to pray.
10. Teach your children to find the gifts that God has given them.
11. Teach your children how to use their gifts to Glorify God.
12. Do Family Service projects
13. . . . .Like cleaning up a park.
14. . . . . . . explaining that God’s creation says good things about him.
15. . . . .Or giving money to the poor.
16. . . . .Or going Christmas Caroling at a Retirement Center
17. . . . .Or supporting a missionary as a family
18. Teach your kids that praying shouldn’t be just asking God for stuff.
19. Discipline your kids and explain to them why you are doing it.
20. Adopt.
21. . . . Or do foster care.
22. Show your kids grace.
23. Show Kindness to your Spouse
24. Ask them to pray for you.
25. Ask your kids forgiveness for a wrong you have done to them.
26. Talk about what is in a child’s heart, not just what he is doing outwardly.
27. Encourage your kids when they learn about God.
28. Give money to your church and work out ways that your child can, as well.
29. Never think you’re a good enough Parent.
I showed this to my wife and she suggested that I put “Pray for your kids” as number 1. I have done so.
Any suggestions?
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March 24, 2008 at 8:52 am
GUNNY HARTMAN
A very nice list indeed.
I’ll put my thinking cap on and see if I can find any worthwhile additions.
Thanks!
March 24, 2008 at 9:22 am
jamsco
Thanks, Gunny.
March 24, 2008 at 12:00 pm
Don Spears
All great ideas and moral indeed… but Christ is suspiciously absent.
1. Have a home that is constantly amazed that glorifying God comes through faith in Christ and not in works of the law.
March 24, 2008 at 1:31 pm
jamsco
A good suggestion, Don, but how does bring about this constant amazement? How about:
30. Encourage your 6 year old daughter and tell her she is correct when she says “It wasn’t for his sins that Jesus died. It was for ours!” My wife did this one this weekend.
March 25, 2008 at 7:59 am
ashley
thanks for the comment and for your sympathy for the loss of our son. as a reply, no, nothing is too harsh, I just didn’t take the time to read and analyze it all before I linked to your list! I might agree with you on some things, but the fault lies with me for failing to spend more time studying it all! I have a pastor friend who I tend to run these things by when I’m rolling them around in my head, I suppose I should endeavor to do more of it personally! Best wishes.
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